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Job Seeker
- CareerOneStop Explore Careers – Explore Careers – What kind of career will fit you best?
- Community Life Guide: Employment -Learn about Community Employment. There are 8 main ideas about employment in this Learn section. Each main idea has step-by-step help to navigate the topics. There are also tools and exercises.
- Disability Benefits 101 Ohio -Understand the programs that help you. See how work can help.
- DODD Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities –Offering support across the lifespan of people with developmental disabilities, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities oversees a statewide system of supportive services that focus on ensuring health and safety, supporting access to community participation, and increasing opportunities for meaningful employment.
- Explore Work | Future planning for teens with disabilities – If you are a teen who has a disability, you have choices and things to do to prepare for life after high school and becoming an adult. Just like every teen, this is a time of transition. You are preparing to be an adult, get a job, and become more independent. A big part of planning for the future means thinking about a job that is a good fit for you. Want to find out more about who you are and what you’re good at? This training will help you explore your talents and create a plan for your future!
- Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is the leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on job accommodations and disability employment issues.
- O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, developers, researchers, and more!
- Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD) is the State of Ohio agency whose mission is to empower Ohioans with disabilities through employment, disability determination, and independence.
- PCRN: Employability Skills Successful Careers are built on solid personal and interpersonal skills. Defining, measuring, and building these skills— even naming them— can be challenging. In an effort to leverage and connect the efforts of policy makers, educators, and employers, the U.S. Department of Education compiled the Employability Skills Framework and developed related tools, media and resources.
- Social Security Administration – This section contains general listings of the work incentives for SSDI and SSI beneficiaries.
- U.S. Department of Labor As an organization with diverse functions, the U.S. Department of Labor carries out its mission through a number of offices and agencies. These are organized into major program areas, and headed by an Assistant Secretary or other official. You can also view the Department of Labor’s Organizational Chart.
- Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) The purpose of the law is to iIncrease opportunities for individuals, particularly those with barriers to employment, support alignment of workforce investment, education, and economic development systems, provide workers with the skills and credentials to secure and advance employment, promote improvement in the structure and delivery of services, increase the success of workers and employers, and increase the employment retention and earnings of participants and the attainment of recognized post-secondary credentials.
- Five Tips For Integrating Employees With Intellectual Or Developmental Disabilities
Employers
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government’ programs and services
- Autism Workforce – We prepare companies to successfully hire, train, and retain autistic employees, empowering businesses to celebrate the benefits of neurodiversity in the workplace. Using well-thought-out and proven strategies, we bridge the gap between good intentions and the need to take care of business.
- Disability:IN Your Business Partner for Disability Inclusion. Disability:IN is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. Our network of over 500 corporations expands opportunities for people with disabilities across enterprises.
- Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN) offers information and resources to help organizations of all sizes recruit, hire, retain, and advance people with disabilities; build inclusive workplace cultures; and meet diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) goals.
- Employment First is a policy to ensure every individual of working age has an opportunity to seek employment. Agencies are directed to provide a person-centered planning process for every individual of working age to identify their desired employment goal and their place on the path to community employment.
- Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) is the only non-regulatory federal agency that promotes policies and coordinates with employers and all levels of government to increase workplace success for people with disabilities.ODEP’s mission is to develop and influence policies and practices that increase the number and quality of employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
- Ohio Means Jobs -Find a job, learn career skills, meet the requirements of your government benefits, and more on OhioMeansJobs.com
- Social Security Administration – This section contains general listings of the work incentives for SSDI and SSI beneficiaries.
- Strategies for Working with People who have Disabilities
- Five Tips For Integrating Employees With Intellectual Or Developmental Disabilities
General
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government’ programs and services
- DODD Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities –Offering support across the lifespan of people with developmental disabilities, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities oversees a statewide system of supportive services that focus on ensuring health and safety, supporting access to community participation, and increasing opportunities for meaningful employment.
- Explore Work | Future planning for teens with disabilities – If you are a teen who has a disability, you have choices and things to do to prepare for life after high school and becoming an adult. Just like every teen, this is a time of transition. You are preparing to be an adult, get a job, and become more independent. A big part of planning for the future means thinking about a job that is a good fit for you. Want to find out more about who you are and what you’re good at? This training will help you explore your talents and create a plan for your future!
- Social Security Administration – This section contains general listings of the work incentives for SSDI and SSI beneficiaries.
- U.S. Department of Labor As an organization with diverse functions, the U.S. Department of Labor carries out its mission through a number of offices and agencies. These are organized into major program areas, and headed by an Assistant Secretary or other official. You can also view the Department of Labor’s Organizational Chart.
- Five Tips For Integrating Employees With Intellectual Or Developmental Disabilities